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by slfnflctd 6mo ago
Agreed. I came to the conclusion years ago that we are going to keep having the same problems until we engineer our way out of them by altering our biology-- either genetically or with implanted augmentation devices (or both). I have yet t
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by slfnflctd 6mo ago
> There just happened to be a whacko that got into the White House My counter to this is that such an occurrence was increasingly likely starting around the time the massive US Evangelical base was essentially fully captured by (and beca
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by slfnflctd 6mo ago
There's a kid outside the window of the place I'm staying who's been in the yard playing and talking with people online through his VR headset for like 2+ hours. He's living in the future. Whatever happens, he and his
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by slfnflctd 6mo ago
You jest, but it's a good question. When people talk about the 'plateau of ability' agents are widely expected to reach at some point, I suspect a lot of it will boil down to skyrocketing costs and plummeting accuracy past a
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
Human journalists and marketing copy writers have been writing like this for at least 50 years, if not considerably longer. I am exhausted by so many people calling writing out as AI without sufficient proof other than writing style. Som
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
> almost as bad as when LLMs link things to prove their point, you visit the link, and find it says nothing of the sort or even the opposite To be fair, they got it from us. This happened to me plenty of times long before modern LLMs.
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
> The question of whether the current generation of "AI" can think, whether it is conscious, let alone whether it can suffer(!), is not even worth discussing. It should be obvious to anyone who understands how these tools work
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
> The implications of a machine that can approximate or mimic human thinking are far beyond the implications of a machine that can approximate or mimic swimming It seems to me like too many people are missing this point. Modern philosop
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
Not saying there's anything wrong with your perspective (lots of terms get in muddied waters, it's common and not a problem if everyone is on the same page), but this is what I just found on Wikipedia: "Early on, the notebook
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
> having conceived of no further items to which AI could provide assistance For me, the issue isn't that I can't conceive of work AI could help with. It's that most of the work I currently need to be doing involves things
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
A point worthy of much more discussion! However, this article is oversimplifying things. We are going down tumultuous, uncharted, river rapids. There are many models of varying sizes and types being trained on hardware large and small, wi
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
> Will everyone just pay each other to do a bunch of handy work for each other? May not be as crazy of a thought as it seems on the surface. There are many different types of not-easily-roboticized manual work, doable by people of varyi
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
You make a great and valid point. But I did say "real time".
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
Phone is also faster. Spoken word is still the most information dense way for humans to communicate abstract ideas in real time.
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
> most people want a white collar job and send their kids to college Part of the reason for my prior comment is the clear fact that a not-insignificant percentage of white collar jobs are being massively devalued at the moment, which mea
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
The vast majority of tires that need to be repaired or replaced (and the processes to do so) haven't changed much if at all, though. And there are entire franchises that pretty much only do tires. Same with many other manual labor ta
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
Observers and technologists have also consistently failed to appreciate the continuing value proposition of hybrids, and Toyota makes some of the best, top selling models.
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
In my opinion as a mostly-vegetarian who used to adore burgers as a kid, the Impossible brand was by far the most realistic (and my beef-loving partner would agree, they made stroganoff with it and loved it)... but the price truly is ridic
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
I was directly told by senior staff at a large org I worked for that I'd be eligible for a managerial position-- the only thing I was missing was a degree. Unfortunately, getting a degree while working full time for the income I neede
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
It is a little weird that these two events were so close to each other. My tinfoil hat tells me Someone Important didn't want two shows from the same creator resurrected simultaneously and potentially competing with each other, but I p
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
Remixing art has been done since the invention of art. It doesn't ruin anything if the original work is preserved. No one is required to like it. But the word 'hate' is a bit extreme, even in your example. Also, the group
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
Two pieces of advice I keep seeing over & over in these discussions-- 1) start with a fresh/baseline context regularly, and 2) give agents unix-like tools and files which can be interacted with via simple pseudo-English commands su
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by slfnflctd 7mo ago
Capturing data was the main bottleneck I ran into years ago when I tried something similar with a little MS Access database. I spent lots of time making it pretty and defining fields and data types, but actually typing stuff in? I lost in
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
> now nobody fully understands what was generated To be fair, a lot of the on call people being pulled in at 3am before LLMs existed didn't understand the systems they were supporting very well, either. This will definitely make it
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
That's a good point, NYC has its own culture and is less unsafe than some other big cities.
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
At church or during social gatherings in a friend's home, there is a certain set of expectations of behavior which are much more well defined and widely understood than the behavior you can expect from random people traveling though t
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
Intrusive thoughts is a big one. Most people report some variation of this phenomenon (myself included), and are often horrified by the thoughts or images their own mind produces, very much wanting them to go away. To be judged by that is
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
There were at least some signs of some governments and other institutions trying to tackle the social media problem for a while... and then LLMs came along. The previous problems with people being in their own bubbles and being fed misinfo
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
I remember telling my parents at a young age that I couldn't be sure Ronald Reagan was real, because I'd only ever seen him on TV and never in real life, and I knew things on TV could be fake. That was the beginning of my journey
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by slfnflctd 8mo ago
"Y'know, like, the thing is, like, y'know, here's the thing..." I totally feel for people with speech pathologies or anxiety that makes it harder for them to communicate verbally, but how is this guy the public fa

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